Women may crave sweets after menopause because theyre no longer as able to taste sweet foods. Hormonal changes seem to lower the ability to taste sugar. When Dr. Cagri Delilbasi conducted taste tests on 20 postmenopausal women and compared the results to 20 men of similar age, he found that the women were much less sensitive to sugar, but there was no difference when it came salt, sour or bitter tastes. Only 35% of the women said they’d noticed the change, but 45% said they now craved sweets.
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Federal investigators have arrested investor Andrew Carlssin, who claims to be a time traveler from the year 2256, and says this is why he’s had such incredible success in the stock market. The Security and Exchange Commission says, “We don’t believe this guy’s story?he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar. But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be pure luck. The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
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There are fewer cases of SARS in the U.S. than was previously thought. The number of SARS cases dropped from 208 to 35, thanks to new techniques for identifying SARS. CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding says, “I think we did cast a very wide net early on?We have a test available now and that is going to help us sort out the cases truly related to coronavirus. We do not want to exaggerate the scope of the problem here.” And despite a raging epidemic of SARS in Toronto, Ontario, British Columbia has managed to stay relatively SARS-free.

Gerberding says, “It may very well be that our isolation system is contributing to that but it also may be just luck?that we haven’t had people who are highly infectious.”
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Top secret documents found in bombed intelligence headquarters in Baghdad reveal that Russia spied for Saddam Hussein in the months leading up to the war, including listening in on private conversations between Tony Blair and other Western leaders. Moscow gave Saddam a list of assassins available for “hits” in the West, and one document implies that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons.
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